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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Typical business stage. An already proven business model and its already valuable assets. Typical business model.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

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ProfessorVC: Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct

Professor VC

always focus on the business model and assumptions, but there are too many unknowns to put much faith in the future cash flow projections. One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). Back to the survey.